After eating soup in the basement and then braving the bitter cold to see Christmas lights and the live nativity scene at the cemetary [is it just me or do my Christmas memories seem creepy?!?], we went back to Grandma O’s house to open presents. Like I said, when we left to look at light [...]

On Christmas Eve, once we were filled up with soup, we always went for a ride in the car to look at lights. We usually took two cars. First it was just me, my Grandma O and my mom. Then when my Uncle John had kids all of us went for the ride.
We would listen [...]

Today has been a big “Christmas-y” day. We got all new stockings this year. The old ones were getting pretty ratty. And I guess we threw them out last year. And this year we have a fireplace to hang them from. It looks so cool.

This afternoon Keaton and Justis rang the bell for the Salvation [...]

My grandparents had a fairly long living room. At one end of the living room was the door to a large screened in porch. Surrounding that door was built in bookcases. My grandma and grandpa had more books then anybody I had ever seen. The shelves were covered. If I needed to look something up [...]